The Turul Hawk as the representative of the Holy Spirit

The Turul hawk represented the ancient tradition of the link between heaven and earth. She resided on the tree of life from where newborns come when they are born. This ancient symbol also became incorporated into the early eastern Christianity, just as the early Mother Godess of the Hungarians "the goddes of plenty and childbirth", became Christianized along with their old symbols of the tree of life and the Turul. Here it is shown lifting the praying suplicant into heaven still holding the prayer cup in one hand and a leafed branch in the other..

The early gold works have many mythical scenes which remind one of early Messopotamian mythical beasts yet the main religious symbol is the cross, shown prominently on two bowls. The rest is imagination and remnants of old traditional ideas of the other world. The symbols of grifiths, dragons, leopard with a human head, or mythical hunter with fierry hair are remnants of a much older time that remained as ancient icons of ancestors, clan totems and legends lost. Many of the people of the Caucasus and Cuban region were Christianized by the 5^th century.